Research On The Donggong System In Ming Dynasty

The Prince,also known as the Crown Prince,and the East Palace,he was the legal heir of the throne in the feudal era,and the East Palace was the palace where the Prince lived,and later generations referred to the Prince.The Prince system is a set of systems involving the inheritance of the throne,which is based on the Prince.It mainly includes the principles of the establishment of the reservoir,the education of the Imperial Reserve and the official system of the East Palace.Based on the archival materials and the current academic achievements,this paper systematically studies the Prince system in the Ming Dynasty.Based on the three perspectives of the reservoir principle,the royal reserve education and the Prince official system,this paper comprehensively discusses the Eastern Palace of the Ming Dynasty.The full text is divided into the following four parts:The first part,through the summary of the Prince system before the Ming Dynasty,explores the evolution of the Prince system in the past and reveals its profound connotation and characteristics.The Prince system sprouted in the Pre-Qin period,and the Han Dynasty began to take shape,and it reached its peak stage in the early Tang Dynasty.After that,it began to move toward the micro,and the two Songs followed,until the Qing Dynasty was abolished.From the macro trend,the Prince system is gradually declining,and the Ming Dynasty is just at the critical stage of decline.In the second part,the Ming Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty of the Han nationality,and its ideological system was mostly inherited from the Han and Tang Dynasties.This part focuses on the content of the Ming Dynasty reserve system.Firstly,it briefly summarizes the basic general situation of the Prince of Ming Dynasty,then summarizes the basic characteristics of the Ming Dynasty,analyzes the principle of the establishment of the system of inheritance,and finally discusses the internal reasons.In the third part,on the basis of inheriting the previous Prince education,the Ming Dynasty gradually formed a complete system of custody of the clan,and cultivated several outstanding monarchs in the early Ming Dynasty.In this part,through the analysis of the educational institutions of the Crown Prince,the choice of teachers,the education of enlightenment,and the education of the cabinet,the face of the East Palace education in the Ming Dynasty was explored and evaluated.In the fourth part,under the background of the unprecedented strengthening of themonarchy of the Ming Dynasty,the East Palace officials inherited the trend of weakening the power of the East Palace since the late Tang Dynasty,and incorporated the Prince bureaucratic system into the bureaucratic system of the imperial court.In this part,by discussing the issues of the official residence of the East Palace,the characteristics of the officers,and the selection methods of the East Palace officials,the influence of the East Palace official system on the Ming Dynasty politics was revealed.In summary,the Ming Dynasty Prince system,as an important part of the emperor system,made great contributions to the maintenance of feudalism in the early Ming Dynasty under the joint action of the emperor,the prince,the Prince official,etc.,and gradually became ruined in the middle and late stages.Most of the monarchs were incompetent and accelerated the demise of the Ming Empire.